Taking My Space to the Countryside: I Dump My Awful In-Laws and Save My Husband

On the eve of her rebirth, beneath the dim yellow glow of a kerosene lamp, Su Wanqing stares coldly at her in-laws kneeling all over the floor, pressuring her husband, Gu Yanchen, to take the blame for her gambling-addicted brother-in-law. The horrors of her previous life come back to her in vivid detail: Gu Yanchen was forced to take the fall for his brother’s fatal gambling-debt crime and eventually froze to death in the wilderness at an extremely cold youth settlement. Meanwhile, his family drained her of every last bit of her dowry. She worked day and night but could never fill their bottomless pit, and in the end, not even her bones were left behind. The jade pendant in her palm, a space of its own, grows faintly warm. It is her lifeline in this second life, holding a spiritual spring and vast supplies, and giving her the means to change her fate. “You want him to take the blame? Dream on!” Su Wanqing clenches the pendant and publicly reveals irrefutable evidence that her brother-in-law gambled on credit and injured someone in a reckless act. She also reports her in-laws for hiding assets and evading taxes. While everyone is in chaos, she opens the storeroom, moves her dowry and all of her in-laws’ ill-gotten wealth into her space, then turns and walks away.

By the time she reaches the Liaohe Brigade, Gu Yanchen has passed out from a chill and is on the brink of death. Su Wanqing immediately gives him spiritual spring water to keep him alive and nurses him with care, ultimately pulling him back from the jaws of death. From then on, she uses the spring water to nourish her body, clears land with the superior seeds from her space, and treats the villagers with rare medicinal herbs. Under her leadership, the impoverished Liaohe Brigade grows steadily prosperous, and everyone enjoys a peaceful life. But her vicious in-laws refuse to accept defeat and come to make a scene, while her hypocritical stepsister moves to the countryside, hoping to steal Gu Yanchen away. Standing on the field ridge with Gu Yanchen at her side, protecting her, Su Wanqing gives a cold laugh. “My man, my home. Who dares lay a finger on either?”